A--- Allah Maɗaukakin ya ce: {Ba aikin alheri (biyayya, adalci, da kowane aiki na biyayya ga Allah, da sauransu) ba ne ku karkata fuskokinku zuwa gabas ko yamma (a sallah); amma aikin alheri shi ne (halin) wanda ya yi imani da Allah, da Ranar Lahira, da mala'iku, da Littafi, da Annabawa, kuma yana ba da dukiyarsa, duk da son da yake yi masa, ga 'yan uwa, da marayu, da miskinai, da matafiyi, da masu roƙo, da 'yantar da bayi, kuma yana tsayar da sallah, yana ba da zakka, da waɗanda suke cika alkawarinsu idan sun yi alkawari, da masu haƙuri a cikin talauci mai tsanani da ciwo (cuta) da kuma lokacin yaƙi (a lokacin fama). Waɗannan su ne mutanen gaskiya, kuma su ne Al-Muttaqun (masu taƙawa)}. (Al-Baqarah, 177)

A--- Allah the Almighty says: {It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and each and every act of obedience to Allah, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masakin (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salat (Iqamatas-Salat), and gives the Zakah, and who fulfill their covenant when they make it, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of fighting (during the battles). Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqun (the pious)}. (Al-Baqarah, 177)